NATIONS
(See GENTILES)
unified origin of
• Genesis 2:7-25; 9:18-19; Acts 17:26 (cf. Genesis 1:26-27); Romans 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45
divisions of:
♦ list of their divisions:
♦ divine appointment of their divisions:
God's relationship to:
He rules over the nations
He chose Abraham for national purposes
♦ Abraham as father of the nation Israel (see also ISRAEL)
• Genesis 12:2 (cf. Amos 3:1-2)
♦ Abraham as father of a multitude of nations
♦ Abraham as a blessing to all nations
♦ He desires divine blessing for all nations:
(See also MISSIONS, throughout the world)
• Genesis 12:3; Psalms 67:1-2; 96:3; Isaiah 45:22; 52:10, 15; Matthew 24:14; 28:19; Galatians 3:13-14; 1 Timothy 2:4
♦ He will place obedient Israel above all the nations:
♦ He has given the nations their inheritance:
♦ He controls the destiny of nations:
♦ He and His anointed (i.e., Messiah) are opposed by the nations:
♦ He rebukes the nations:
♦ He keeps watch on the nations:
♦ He judges the nations:
• Genesis 15:14; Deuteronomy 9:4-5; Psalms 67:4; 79:6; 96:10; Isaiah 34:2; Jeremiah 10:25; Micah 5:15; Zephaniah 3:8; Revelation 16:19
♦ He guides the nations:
♦ He possesses the nations:
♦ He has made all nations:
♦ He chastens the nations:
♦ He vindicates the holiness of His name among the nations:
♦ He accepts without partiality people from every nation:
♦ He permitted nations to go their own ways before Christ's coming:
• Acts 14:16; 17:30
Christ's relationship to:
♦ He will inherit the nations:
♦ He will rule the nations with a rod of iron:
♦ He will be served by all nations:
♦ He will execute justice and judgment among the nations:
♦ He will bring peace to the nations:
• Isaiah 2:4 (cf. 9:6-7); Zechariah 9:10
♦ He will be sought by the nations:
♦ He will be a light to the nations:
♦ He will be worshiped by the nations:
♦ His followers will be hated by all nations:
♦ He was proclaimed among the nations:
♦ He will give overcomers authority over the nations:
♦ He has redeemed people from every nation:
prophecy concerning:
(See Christ's relationship to)
♦ all nations will worship before the Lord:
♦ the Lord will give the heritage of the nations to His people:
♦ all the nations will stream to the house of the Lord:
♦ nations will come and serve redeemed Israel:
• Isaiah 60:1-3, 12
♦ the Lord will gather all nations to see His glory:
♦ Israel will be scattered among and regathered from the nations:
♦ the Lord will shake all nations:
♦ the wealth of all nations will come to God's house:
♦ the Lord will be sought by many nations:
♦ all nations will be gathered against Jerusalem:
♦ the Lord will make His name great among the nations:
♦ the gospel of the kingdom will be preached to all nations before the end comes:
♦ there will be dismay among nations before Christ returns:
other relationships of the nations:
♦ to righteousness:
♦ to sin:
♦ to the new Jerusalem:
various other uses:
♦ nations driven out of Canaan before Israel:
♦ defilement of the nations through immorality:
♦ idolatrous practices of the nations:
♦ Israel's desire to be like other nations:
• 1 Samuel 8:5, 20
♦ mixed religion of the nations:
♦ nations who forget God are turned into Sheol:
♦ a nation exalted through righteousness:
♦ a nation disgraced through sin:
♦ a prophet to the nations (i.e., Jeremiah):
♦ Israel as a reproach among the nations:
♦ nations called by God's name:
♦ the temple divinely intended as a house of prayer for all nations:
♦ devout Jews from every nation at Pentecost:
• Acts 2:5
♦ the nations are presently deceived by Satan:
♦ nations in relation to the new Jerusalem:
♦ the leaves of the tree of life for the healing of the nations:
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.